How to Share and Map a Network
Drive Using a Crossover Cable Between Systems

Connect
the machines together using a crossover Ethernet cable (which may be
purchased at Best Buy, Intrex, etc.) Be sure it is not a
common "straight-through" Ethernet cable (sometimes referred to as a
"patch cable".) Connect the two systems together with the
crossover cable from one machine's Ethernet port to the other machine's
Ethernet port. (These ports look like over-sized telephone
cable jacks.) If you do not have one on your computer, you
will need to install an Ethernet card (sometimes called a "NIC
card".) Once connected, proceed as follows:

1)
Open up Windows Explorer:

2)
Using your mouse, "right-click" on the C: drive icon, on the machine
that you want to "share out" (that is, the machine that you want to
copy files FROM.)

3)
Select "Properties" from the drop down menu, and click on that
selection with your mouse.

4)
Click on the "Sharing" tab. Fill out the form as
shown. The
"default" name of a drive share is the letter of the drive followed by
a "$" sign. Make sure that the "Share this folder" option is
checked. You can also click on the "Permissions" button and
be
sure that "Everyone" has full "read/write" permissions. If
they
don't select that, and apply it.

5)
Now you are ready to move over to the OTHER machine, that is, the
machine that you want to copy file TO. In that machine's
Windows
Explorer, Select the "Tools" option, and then select "Map Network
Drive."

6)
Select an "unmapped" drive (one should show up by default.)
In
this example, the available "drive name" is "Z:". In the
"Folder"
field, type in the name of the machine that you are copying files FROM,
and follow it with the share name that we set up on that machine (which
is "C$".) If you do not know the name of the machine that you
are
copying FROM (that you set up the "C$" share on), you may click on
"Browse" and then select "Microsoft Windows Network" and look for an
available machine under that option.) YOU WILL NOT SEE THE C$
SHARE! This is because the "$" at the end makes the share
"invisible" to browsing on the network. However, you SHOULD
see
the machine name. For instance, if your machine that you are
wanting to copy FROM is called "FRED", then you would type in:
"\\FRED\C$" (but with no quotes.) Be sure that "Reconnect at
logon" is checked if you will be connecting to this machine regularly
from now on. Click "Finish." You can now copy files
from
your machine's newly connected "Z:" drive.

Note
in the screen above, I have a drive
called "M:" connected from a machine (whose name is obscured for
security reasons,) and the network
drive share was shared out as "Apps".
Therefore, I can copy files
that exist on that share, as through I had a real, local drive, called
"M:".